I suppose another FAT CAT gets a massive pension too, ridiculous:ugh:

He is leaving to run a small airport, given passenger losses at Dub he went from running a medium one to a small one.

The DAA press release states:

“The successful delivery of the investment programme at Dublin Airport, and the opening of Terminal 2 last year in particular, has improved the customer experience and lifted Dublin into the top five airports within its peer group in Europe, according to the latest industry surveys,” Mr Barrett added.


I could give you my definition of a peer group as far as DUB is concerned but that aside which 5 airports are they?

T2 is a definite improvement over what went before.

It's a shame there's no way to sort out the half mile trek to the end of Pier D.

Well, if we look at airport passenger numbers for 2010, here are the airports between 15 and 25 million:
Athens International airport 15,390,162
Berlin Tegel 15,025,600
Brussels 17,149,416
Copenhagen Kastrup 21,452,464
Dublin airport 18,406,427
Dusseldorf International 18,987,358
London Stansted 18,574,204
Manchester Airport 17,878,166
Milan Malpensa 18,947,808
Moscow Domodedovo International 22,327,952
Moscow Sheremetyevo 19,329,185
Oslo Gardermoen 19,091,113
Palma de Mallorca 21,110,780
Stockholm Arlanda 16,986,662
Vienna International Airport 19,691,206
Zurich 22,825,318

"Lifted Dublin into the top 5" means fifth place, presumably ;). Unclear what the exact metric is that's being referred to (profitability, profit per passenger, number of destinations, quality of corporate-gift swag...) In terms of passenger experience (I know, I know...) I'd definitely put DUB behind CPH, OSL, and ARN for starters.

Thanks for the figures Cyrano. We could guess but all we know is that in the press release Mr. Barrett does not give any source attributions to the quote all he says is "latest industry surveys" this leads me to believe he may be stretching the truth a bit. Does anyone know where one can find a recent industry survey that puts DUB in an impressive 5th place? It may help us to understand who these guys benchmark themselves against.

Cork, Shannon, Galway and Knock perchance :E

"Cork, Shannon, Galway and Knock perchance"

How much did they pay you for that survey Racedo? Seriously, wouldn't it be comical if some journalist got a copy of the quoted 'latest industry survey'.

Ryanair to start Verona and Palermo in March. Palermo looks like it will replace Trapani.

Aer Lingus to start Verona, Stockholm and Maastricht next summer also.

Where did you read the Aer Lingus?

This is the study that people wanted:

Latest News > Dublin Airport Delivers Major Improvements in Customer Service

Also says more new routes from T2 to be announced soon, could this refer to the Aer Lingus ones or other airlines.

Have to take my hat off to Dublin airport since they opened Terminal 2, it's a real pleasure flying from Dublin airport these days. I hope Aer Lingus Regional will introduce some more connecting flights through Dublin especially from within Ireland. Cork to Dublin service would be a first step in 2012..

24 Dec - PHL 08.05 - DUB 20.15 and will depart back to PHL on 26 Dec at 09.30. Did they do it this way last year?

Palermo has disappeared from the destinations. Do you have news?

Aer Lingus on track to become the largest carrier at Dublin this year. This includes there regional flights. Only problem (Jan - Mar this year could affect the figures).

I would pay very little notice even at this late stage what airlines are doing around the 24th of December and the xmas period as it is still onging. I would suggest that the US may come in a lot earlier on the 24th as if it is badly delayed ex US DUB will be closed, lights out no one in keep going to the UK. It would be a PR nightmare for them.

Several airlines still have to decide what they are doing because of the closure, but still if it does happen a bold move but expensive move by US Airways.

Summer 2012
 

Lufthansa
FRA -3 A321 daily - A321 replaces A320
(extra 800 seats per week)
DUS - 2 weekly F100 & CR900 - NEW
(186 seats weekly)
MUC - 1 weekly same as last summer
Total - 986 extra weekly seats.

SAS
CHP - 13 weekly - A321 replaces MD-80's 5 weekly
(extra 480 seats weekly
OSL - 3 weekly - B737-800 replaces B737-500
(extra 280 seats weekly)
ARN - 4 weekly - MD-80's replace B737-600/700
(extra 100 seats weekly)
Total - 860 extra weekly seats.

Over 1.5million passengers in October down 10%
Ryanair cuts and PSO gone and Mid Term a week lather.

Europe down 9%
UK down 8%
Transatlantic down 3.5%
Middle East down 18%
Domestic down 85%

A shocking set a figures to say the least and it will get worse for winter.

16.2million year to date up 2%

Await Ryanair reaction as they have had nothing to complain about over the last few months when it comes to trafic.

Latest News > Over 1.5 Million Passengers In October At Dublin Airport

Drum roll please.... and the winner is SERVISAIR. Servisair won the EK contract. Well done.